Random Alaskaness

[sholio]

We have achieved "reading at midnight with the lights off" here at the Arctic Circle. That's exactly what I was doing last night at midnight -- lying in front of the window in the bedroom with all the lights in the house off, reading by the light of the sunset -- and that's what I'm off to do now, finishing up "The Yiddish Policeman's Union" by Michael Chabon. (Very entertaining alt-history book in which the displaced Jewish refugees of WWII were sent to a refugee territory in Alaska, and now in the modern day, Sitka is a city-state of 3 million people and Detective Meyer Landsman is a giant woobie. Oh, Landsman! *hugs him and goes to finish book*)